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Rules
and
helps to
Chri¡Nan
meel«neff'e.
have
of tbe.people
of
Ifrael,
read
but the
2._ Or
3.
Chapters
of
Eyed. Chap.
i
s,
towards
the latter end, there
you find
that
the
people
did
chide with Mofesbecaufethe waters were
bit-
ter,
well
they were
nor humbled for
thi .And
in
the 16.
Chap:.
you
find
them at
it
agáine, though
God
was
m_rcifull
to
them
then,
yet
when they came
to
ano:her
ílraight they were
froward
and angry again,and when
God delivered'them
there,.
you
shall find
them at
it
again,
In the
r7.
Ch:
2.
ver:.
fo
that.
Upon
every
new
occafion
they
fall
to
it
again, why becaufe
we do not
find
that
in the
interim they were humbled for
their
former diflempers , therefore
you
that
have fuch
froward
diflempers,
&get
alone, and apply
the
fait
tears
of humiliation
urn_o
the-choller
of
yours, and fee what
this
will
doe,humilia
--
tion
for
that
that's pail,
will
be a fpecial helpe for time
to
come.
.
Fourthly,
If
you
would
have
meek
and
quiet
fpirits,
take
heed ofthe
firft beginning
of
pafliòn, we know
that when
a
fire
.
is,we
do not
flay
quenching
of it
til
the
houf
be all in
a
flame:-
but
if
there
be but
a
little
lire kindled
in
any
part
oldie
houfè,,
if
there
be
but
a
fmoak, you will
fay,
where
is
it,
and
are not
quiet till
you find
iii
out,
fo
should
it
be,
when.
paffion bevinh
to
arife, your
hou
e begins
to
be on
a
fire,
your
fouls
begin to
be
on
fire,
and you
fhould-be
as
much
fet
upon
quenching
of
it
at the
firfl riling
as
you
would be when
you
fee
the fire breake
out
in
your
bode
at the very firfl, perhaps
a
dish
ofwater
may
quench that now,that
if
you flay
but till
halfe an
honre
hence,
many
piles
of water
will
not,
fo
it
is
in
the
point of
pall
on,
if
fo'be that
people would be careful!'
at
firfl,
then
with
a
little
adoe they
may
quench
their
paffion
if
they will take
it
when
their
paffion begins
tokindle, but
flay
a
while,and
there
will
be
no rule at all,
no coming
neer
a
man
:
Sopoyfon,take
it
as
loon:
as
ever
a
man feels
his
body
diflempered,
and
there
may
be
meanies
td
help
againíl
it,
but
if
you flay
a
while
till
it
hath or
powver'over
narure,
there
will
be
little
help
them
Olook
upon
paffion
as
if it
were
poyfon, and take force
remedy prefently,
let
not
your paffion
be
working
any
longer
:'
fo
a
feavor,
.
it'often
times
maybe
eafily
curedat
#ìril, fo paffion,-
it
is
a
lea-
ver;